The Things
I care most about? those that sensory
memory and good feeling accrue to.
Isn’t it the same for you?
This knife - to others, mere knife -
for me a kitchen helper
of many years, snug in the hand,
never blunted, easy to clean.
Avocadoes come to mind -
separating one into the smooth
hollow half and the half with stone,
both shapely, promising, spooned
out, spreading under the spoon,
pale yellow-green covering
of my just-popped-up toast. Stone?
I finger it while avocado-stones
of the long past, some recent,
some remote, glimmer in it, shine
with my regret I never planted one.
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